Terminal
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The terminal is where you use commands to perform various tasks within the Linux system by giving them to a shell. It is a very powerful tool, and is usually only used by advanced users. You can access a terminal by Control-Alt and hitting any function key from F1-F8 (X is usually running on #7, so a terminal may not be running there). The terminal sessions running on F1 - F8 are called 'virtual terminals' and are one of the most useful administration tools one can use, and used to be linux's main advantage over DOS in the pre-GUI days.
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[edit] Terminal applications for X
[edit] aterm
aterm is designed to provide pleasing visual effects, while performing such a mundane function as terminal emulation under X. It is largely based on rxvt code.
[edit] cxterm
Chines/Japanese/Korean X-Terminal.
[edit] Eterm
Eterm is a color vt102 terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm. It is designed with a Freedom of Choice philosophy, leaving as much power, flexibility, and freedom as possible in the hands of the user. It is designed to look good and work well, but takes a feature-rich approach rather than one of minimalism while still maintaining speed and efficiency.
[edit] gnome-terminal
This is the default terminal that ships with gnome, it is very feature rich and supports many different features.
[edit] hanterm
Hanterm is an xterm improvement for Hangul (Korean Language) support. Its features include support for johab* encoded fonts, UTF-8 encoding for output, in addition to usual wansung (KSC-5601/KSX-1001) encoded fonts.
[edit] konsole
konsole is the default terminal for the KDE desktop environment. it is somewhat slow on older systems, but it is very customizable and feature rich.
[edit] kterm
The kterm utility launches a multi-lingual terminal emulator based on xterm. The major difference between the two terminal emulators is that kterm can handle multi-lingual text encoded in ISO2022, can display colored text, and has the statusline function. To input multi-lingual text, both X Input Method (XIM) protocol and kinput2 protocol can be used.
[edit] kuake
Kuake is a KDE terminal application which resembles the console found in Quake games.
[edit] mlterm
mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator , which supports various character sets and encodings in the world.
[edit] mrxvt
Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt. It is portable, lightweight and fast. It supports psuedo-transparency, background image (JPEG/PNG/XPM), tinting, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI style scrollbar, multi-languages (CJK), XIM, freetype font...
[edit] roxterm
ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library, but with a smaller footprint and quicker start-up time. It achieves this by not using the Gnome libraries and by using a separate applet to provide the configuration GUI. It can be used as a ROX application, as the name implies, or in any other X environment.
[edit] rxvt
rxvt is another lightweight terminal, with a somewhat more complete feature set than xterm
[edit] wterm
Wterm is a lightweight but featureful terminal emulator for use with the X Window System. While lightweight, it provides an elegant interface including NeXTSTEP style scroll bars and an application menu that integrates well with the Window Maker window manager and GNUStep based applications. Wterm works well with any window manager or desktop environment.
[edit] xterm
xterm is the original graphical terminal program. It is a part of X, so all distributions should have it. It is VERY small and lightweight, but does not include may features.
